Examples

To complicate matters, one of his grandmother's cousins was the lawyer of Patrice Lumumba in the 1950s, later first prime minister of the Republic of the Congo, adding the bloody history of colonialism and a horror of racism to the mix of Mr. Odenbach's inspirations.

This knowledge is often translated into weapons sales, training for VIP bodyguards, establishment of security services and sales of intelligence-gathering equipment to ruthless and corrupt dictators in Angola, the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo and other African nations.